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New comment by technick in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

technick — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:42:32 +0000

I would buy a BYD if the communist US government didn't ban them for being overly competitive. I rented one of these in Mexico last year and it was nice and affordable at 35k with the performance of a model S.

https://www.byd.com/eu/electric-cars/seal

New comment by technick in "Toll roads are spreading in America"

technick — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 06:57:20 +0000

Every toll system is tied together with glue and is easily defeated by hiding your license plate, which also has the added benefit of making it more difficult to track your movement.

New comment by technick in "Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA"

technick — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 06:46:57 +0000

I guess this makes sense if you also consider the history of dog breeding. The best traits are always breed forward into future generations, those characteristics could be how athletic the dog is or how friendly the dog is.

New comment by technick in "Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors"

technick — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 01:26:14 +0000

Hiding your license plate will almost always be considered an offense, but is it one cops actively care about? Luckily in my state I vary rarely see cops on the road making my risk much lower. In the case of getting pulled over, its a $75 dollar fee in Colorado that I am happy to pay, it won't change my behavior.

You can also leave your cell phone at home. Disable anything broadcasting from your vehicle, like bluetooth, wifi, and onboard cell connectivity for telematics. Remove the RFID chips on your car rims (assuming you have a recent model vehicle). Remove TPM sensors from your wheels (A lot of them have part of your vehicle VIN in the packets). Tint your car windows... and remove anything that is unique, like stickers off your vehicle. Partially are completely block your license plate from being read by ALPR's.

Do all of those and you're not as trackable as you are not doing them today.

New comment by technick in "Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors"

technick — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 01:07:16 +0000

Then society should do something about the invasion of privacy happening everywhere. Take Flock camera systems in Colorado as an example, Colorado has been trying to limit access to ALPR data to only municipalities within the state for immigration related cases. The state has even went as far as creating a law. Loveland police department gave federal officials (ICE, DEA, ATF) access to states ALPR data, completely bypassing the law on the books. Data like this has been weaponized and if you can't see it, not sure how I can help you.

New comment by technick in "Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors"

technick — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:33:20 +0000

This is easily managed by hiding your license plates. I haven't shown my real license plate in years (It has a ping identity sticker on it) and no plans on doing so, it's to protect my own privacy.

New comment by technick in "Modern Cars Wreak Havoc on Radar Detectors"

technick — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:30:02 +0000

All of that noise is K band and soon to be spread out across 77 ghz, outside of the bands being used by law enforcement (for now). If you take high velocity seriously, I recommend getting a Uniden R9 and a ALPriority Laser Jammer system. Then add in a dedicated android tablet running Highway Radar, you'll be a hard target to target. Also get a pair of binoculars (bonus points if they're thermal).

I haven't had a speeding ticket since 2018, before I had my tools. Just this week I was averaging 120 mph across Utah, turned my 11 hour trip into 8 hours.

New comment by technick in "Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move"

technick — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:12:46 +0000

More than likely

New comment by technick in "Hyundai wants loniq 5 customers to pay for cybersecurity patch in baffling move"

technick — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:12:04 +0000

I was just looking at a new Hyundai today. Now I've got something more to consider if they aren't willing to stand behind securing their vehicles at their cost.

New comment by technick in "Ollama's new app"

technick — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 07:07:26 +0000

I tried Ollama once but immediately removed it, when I couldn't easily install models that are outside of the models they "support". LM Studio is by far the best tool out there in my humble opinion.

New comment by technick in "It's Time to Stop Building KV Databases"

technick — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 02:46:46 +0000

Very opinionated clickbait if you ask me.

New comment by technick in "IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp"

technick — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:29:53 +0000

It's been good using hashicorp tools, now IBM is going to run them to the ground. I need to look into the fork of tf now.

New comment by technick in "Texas Is Enforcing Its State Data Privacy Law. So Should Other States"

technick — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 05:08:53 +0000

Colorado data privacy laws are a joke. The plebs are unable to take action against companies who violate their data privacy, only the Colorado Attorney General can do anything.

New comment by technick in "So you want to build your own data center"

technick — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 08:35:43 +0000

I've spent more time than I care working in data centers and can tell you that your job req is asking for one person to perform 3 different roles, maybe 4. I guarantee you're going to find a "jack of all trades" and a master of none unless you break them out into these jobs.

Application Developer

DevOps Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer

Storage Engineer

Good luck, hope you pay them well.

New comment by technick in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

technick — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:37:28 +0000

Magic links are a easy way to move the responsibility of security off to the user and remove the risk of managing access controls.

New comment by technick in "Italy declares its "web tax" applicable to any digital service worldwide"

technick — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 07:12:57 +0000

It's a regressive tax that will only be paid by poor people. Rich people will have ways around it.

New comment by technick in "Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan"

technick — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 22:31:05 +0000

I was told at a previous job I couldn't work from home but they expected me to take my laptop home with me just in case something happened. My response was I couldn't work from home and just left my laptop at work.

New comment by technick in "Google won't be mandating a strict return-to-office plan"

technick — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 22:25:44 +0000

Companies should be forced to pay some sort of commute tax every time they force someone to come into an office. Driving an hour to the office and back home, in your car has an impact on everyone and everything around them, it's time they pay up.

New comment by technick in "What I tell people new to on-call"

technick — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:24:02 +0000

Pager Duty gave me insomnia, it's not worth it. Tell your organization they can hire someone to work that shift.

New comment by technick in "The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here?"

technick — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:37:18 +0000

Advertisements, marketing, "streamers" er I mean influencers, and monopolies.